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Drawn & Quarterly
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English
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A new collection by the web sensation and New Yorker cartoonist Hark! A Vagrant is an uproarious romp through history and literature seen through the sharp, contemporary lens of New Yorker cartoonist and comics sensation Kate Beaton. No era or tome emerges unscasthed as Beaton rightly skewers the Western world's revolutionaries, leaders, sycophants, and suffragists while equally honing her wit on the hapless heroes, heroines, and villains of the best-loved...
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Drawn & Quarterly
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English
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A follow-up to Hark! A Vagrant, which spent five months on the New York Times bestseller list Ida B. Wells, the Black Prince, and Benito Juárez burst off the pages of Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection, armed with modern-sounding quips and amusingly on-point repartee. Kate Beaton's second D+Q book brings her hysterically funny gaze to bear on these and even more historical, literary, and contemporary figures. Irreverently funny and carefully...
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Series
Fables (Bill Willingham) volume 1
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"the existence of the Fables is threatened by The Literals, who just don't like their messy, mythical lives. And in the original graphic novel Fables: Werewolves Of The Heartland, Bigby Wolf goes on a quest to find a new location for Fabletown, only to find a village populated by werewolves!"--
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The Unwritten volume 8
Publisher
DC Comics/Vertigo
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"In this eighth volume of the critically-acclaimed new series from the Eisner-nominated creative team, Mike Carey and Peter Gross, Tommy ventures into the land of the dead to find and rescue Lizzie. But the journey through Hades pits Tommy against all kinds of enemies of undead. But none of these encounters prepare him for his meeting with the king -- or for the responsibilities he has to take on for some very familiar damned souls. Collects #42-49...
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Series
Kill Shakespeare volume 4
Publisher
IDW
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Volume 4 of the award-winning series returns with a high seas tale of pirate battles, vengeance, and lost love. Hamlet, Juliet, Othello, and Shakespeare become pawns in a deadly game of survival between the legendary masked pirate Captain Cessario, his first mate Viola, and the new terror on the water, Titus Andronicus' forbidding war ship The Lavinia.
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Series
Publisher
DC Comics/Vertigo
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"The tenth volume of the critically-acclaimed new series from the Eisner-nominated creative team, Mike Carey and Peter Gross is the perfect jumping on point, as Tom Taylor is stranded at the beginning of all creation! Lost in the unwritten scenes of all the world's stories, Tom Taylor is headed back to reality -- and all the gods and beasts and monsters ever imagined can't stop him. But there's a toll on the road that may be too high for him or anyone...
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Series
The Unwritten volume 4
Publisher
Vertigo/DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
In order to harness his extraordinary powers, Tom Taylor must sail the seas of one of the greatest stories ever told, and hunt the white whale that has left countless stories of myth and madness in its wake. Meanwhile, his friends are hunted by a dangerous new enemy-- and face identity crises of their own.
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Series
The Unwritten volume Prequel
Publisher
Vertigo/DC Comics
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
Tom Taylor has lived his life being mistaken for Tommy Taylor, the boy wizard from the world-famous series of novels penned by Tom's long-lost father Wilson. However, after a series of strange events start to parallel the lives of both Taylors--fictional and real--Tom realizes that he might be the character on page made flesh.
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Series
Kill Shakespeare volume 2
Publisher
IDW Pub
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The heroes of William Shakespeare's plays--Hamlet, Juliet, Othello, and Falstaff--attempt to overcome his villains--Richard III, Lady Macbeth, and Iago--in order to find and kill the reclusive wizard William Shakesepeare and take his magic quill.
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Series
The Unwritten volume 5
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Armed with his father's journals, Tom Taylor begins a journey across the United States that also takes him into the past - to the Golden Age of a new artistic medium and the birth of a new type of hero. But following in Wilson's footsteps creates dangerous echoes.
Author
Series
Kill Shakespeare volume 3
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The heroes of William Shakespeare's plays--Hamlet, Juliet, Othello, and Falstaff--attempt to overcome his villains--Richard III, Lady Macbeth, and Iago--in order to find and kill the reclusive wizard William Shakesepeare and take his magic quill.
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Series
Fairest volume 1
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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Vol. 1: "They call her Sleeping Beauty, but life's always been ugly for Princess Briar Rose. Cursed at birth by a pissed-off fairy godmother, she wound up acting as a one-woman weapon of mass destruction against the Adversary in the last days of his war against the Free Fables. She won the day, but at the cost of sending herself into a permanent nap from which one true love's kiss can awaken her. Few would have guessed that it would be Ali Baba, Prince...
Author
Series
Fables (Bill Willingham) volume 4
Publisher
Vertigo/DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
17) Adler
Author
Publisher
Titan Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"For Sherlock, there was only ever one woman -- now Irene Adler is on a mission to take down Moriarty! It's the League of Extraordinary Gentlewomen, as Adler teams up with a host of famous female faces from science, history and literature to defeat the greatest criminal mastermind of all time!" --
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"One hundred pithy and skewering three-panel literary summaries, from curriculum classics like Don Quixote, Lord of the Flies, and Jane Eyre to modern favorites like Beloved, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and Atonement, conveniently organized by subjects including "Love," "Sex," "Death," and "Female Trouble.""--
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